Matchnight: Galaxy-Dynamo

Coverage of the MLS Western Conference final is scheduled to begin on ESPN2 at 11 p.m. ET, but kickoff won't occur until about 11:25. The pregame show provides a cushion in case the college football game between West Virginia and Cincinnati runs late (as college football games commonly do).

If you're planning to watch the match, why not make it an all-nighter and take in the World Cup qualifying playoff between New Zealand and Bahrain live at 2 a.m. on Fox Soccer Channel, sleep a few hours and then awake in time for the Slovakia-USA friendly at 10 a.m. on FSC.

As of early this evening, tickets at Home Depot Center were still available, but a good walk-up crowd might result in a sellout (27,000).

Planning on doing the all nighter, for the sake of finishing my high school football team's highlight video, and will gladly accept these games as a way to keep me interested in things around me as I do something this time consuming and painstakingly slow.

Well, ESPN or MLS could have put the LA-HOU match on Saturday and the CHI-RSL match at 7 or 8 PM CST tonight. But then the "casual viewer" would be watching college football on Saturday instead of Beckham.

I think those who want to watch will and those who don't wont. Soccer ratings are so poor in the US that the time probably has little bearing on the audience size.

I was planning on watching the match, but every time I get to FSC I change channel because why would they be playing a live match at 3am? That LA-Houston match has me messed up. I can't think properly. What's Steve's college basketball slate going to look like?